HotPETs Best Talk Winners

At the end of HotPETs, a vote for best talk is held. Anyone present can vote.

2024

Automating the discovery and reverse-engineering of proprietary cryptography in popular Chinese applications
Mona Wang (Princeton University), Jeffrey Knockel (Citizen Lab at University of Toronto), Jonathan Mayer (Princeton University), Prateek Mittal (Princeton University)

2023

Bridging the Gap between Privacy Incidents and PETs
Shannon Veitch (ETH Zurich), Lena Csomor (ETH Zurich), Alexander Viand (ETH Zurich), Anwar Hithnawi(ETH Zurich), and Bailey Kacsmar (University of Alberta)

2022

Improving Usability of Internet Censorship Data through a Censorship Dashboard
Ramakrishnan Sundara Raman (University of Michigan)

2021

Leveraging Strategic Connection Migration-Powered Traffic Splitting for Privacy
Mona Wang (Princeton) [joint work with Anunay Kulshrestha, Liang Wang, and Prateek Mittal (Princeton University)]

2020

Probably private protocols
Ryan Henry (University of Calgary)

2019

Subtle Censorship via Adversarial Fakeness in Kyrgyzstan
Christopher Schwartz (KU Leuven) and Rebekah Overdorf (EPFL)

2018

POTs: the revolution will not be optimized?
Seda Gürses and Rebekah Overdorf (KU Leuven) [joint work with Ero Balsa (KU Leuven)]

2017

Using BGP to Acquire Bogus TLS Certificates
Henry Birge-Lee (Princeton University) [joint work with Yixin Sun, Annie Edmundson, Jennifer Rexford, Prateek Mittal (Princeton University)]

2016

A Story of Discrimination and Unfairness
Aylin Caliskan (Princeton University) [joint work with Joanna Bryson and Arvind Narayanan (Princeton Univeristy)]

2015

Tor's Usability for Censorship Circumvention
Linda Lee (UC Berkeley) [joint work with David Fifield (UC Berkeley), Serge Egelman (ICSI and UC Berkeley), and David Wagner (UC Berkeley)]

2014

Building Effective Internet Freedom Tools: Needfinding with the Tibetan Exile Community
Michael Brennan (SecondMuse) [joint work with Katey Metzroth and Roxann Stafford (SecondMuse)]

2013

AnoA: A Framework For Analyzing Anonymous Communication Protocols
Sebastian Meiser (Saarland University) [joint work with Michael Backes (MPI-SWS and Saarland University), Aniket Kate (MMCI, Saarland University), Praveen Manoharan (Saarland University), and Esfandiar Mohammadi (Saarland University)]

2012

Perspectives on Academic Impact from Inside the Federal Trade Commission
Michael Brennan (Drexel University)